![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms. Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 260,968 Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) (Part I) - Medicus (P.) Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Keywords: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films Downloads: 38,029 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Modes of the Moment - Unknown Early "footery fashions" film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company. Keywords: Shoes; Fashion Downloads: 12,730 Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Master Hands (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMP... Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive Downloads: 31,149 Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Master Hands (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"... Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive Downloads: 14,026 Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Volcanoes Downloads: 19,707 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Universal-International Newsreel Keywords: Newsreels; Lyndon B. Johnson; Barrel Jumping Downloads: 8,311 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Mother Takes a Holiday (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization How the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities. Keywords: Gender roles; Appliances: Sales; Home economics: Laundry Downloads: 13,190 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | World's Fair Night Aerials Keywords: need meta Downloads: 10,001 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Angry Boy (Part I) - Affiliated Film Producers Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings. Keywords: Psychology; Medicine: Psychiatry; Children: Psychology Downloads: 25,736 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) (Part III) - Medicus (P.) Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Keywords: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films Downloads: 16,237 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Divide and Conquer (Part II) - U.S. War Department Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series. Keywords: World War II: General; World War II: Europe Downloads: 19,340 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Styled in California - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions “A Montgomery Ward Fashion Presentation.” Idealized “typical” family piles out of convertible and starts playing furiously (good) Janis Paige addresses camera: “this is a typical California day” Stylish California mother poses before camera Stylish woman at backyard barbecue; yields it to husband Closeup of woman’s chest and gingham dress Downloads: 470 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | America Goes Over (Part II) - U.S. Army, Signal Corps Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles. Keywords: World War I Downloads: 14,049 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design. Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families Downloads: 331,950 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Just a Spark - Handy (Jam) Organization Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires. Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering Downloads: 5,322 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Home Movie: San Francisco College for Women] Keywords: fixme Downloads: 898 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Tacoma-Narrows Bridge Collapse] Tacoma Span bridge collapse Downloads: 1,611 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Master Hands (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"... Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive Downloads: 13,060 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs. Keywords: Materials: Plastics; Design Downloads: 10,816 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Fences and Gates - Centron Corporation Takes a look at modern economics as it documents the efforts of a group of young musicians who are unable to achieve financial success. Presents basic economic concepts in the form of real-life situations. Dramatizes a real economic case by actual members of a jazz-rock music band. Depicts its struggle to break into national popularity played against the real world problems of making a profit and surviving as a group. Downloads: 553 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950] (Part I) - Warner Pathe News Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation, including the assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman. Keywords: Newsreels; Presidents Downloads: 10,080 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) - Medicus, Phillip 4:00:47:29 - 04:02:39:24 color silent 1939-40 Can marked: "Electrical, Industrial, Food and State Buildings; night scenes" Electrical section, Industrial & Food Buildings intro. World's Fair flag raised & waving in wind- Trylon & Perisphere symbols. VS EXT: Administration building of Fair. TD from American flag to two men talking outdoors. (President of World's Fair Grover Whalen & unident. man) Whalen enters car... Downloads: 1,597 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | All the Way Home - Dynamic Films, Inc. Demonstrates in a positive fashion that integrated communities can and do work. Exposes the property value fallacy and makes an appeal to reason and democratic principles. An examination of what happens in a community when a Negro family stops in front of a 'FOR SALE' sign. Dramatizes the unreason and prejudice which bar a solution to the integration problem in housing. Downloads: 275 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | In the Dough - Audio-Cinema history of yeast and breadmaking Downloads: 357 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Home Movie: 98638: New York To come. Keywords: prelinger; home movies Downloads: 2,988 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 16,999 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Freedom and Power (Part II) - Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios, Inc. This opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation. Keywords: Electricity; Patriotism; Animation: Advertising Downloads: 7,964 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Master Hands (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"... Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive Downloads: 11,029 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Steel: A Symphony of Industry - Audio Productions Dramatic presentation of steel production. Keywords: Metals: Steel; Labor: 1930s Downloads: 14,417 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | FilmTestScans_20120619 - Rick Prelinger Test frames from film scanner for derivation. Keywords: test Downloads: 371 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Movie Trailers (Franklin D. Roosevelt Speech) Downloads: 242 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | So, You're Going to High School 18:17:02:07 1950s Teenagers working in wood shop, cutting wood with saws. Teenage girls in Home Education courses working in kitchen, girl shows class her pie. 18:17:22:25 High-angle shot of large technical high school in New York; VS students working in various workshop classes in technical high school, boys looking at blueprint; building a house in workshop; working in industrial chemistry lab; pouring molten metal from furnace into a mold; teenagers, mostly female, playing in high school orch... Downloads: 1,255 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Free and Easy - Handy (Jam) Organization "OPERATION OF THE VACUUM GEARSHIFTING MECHANISM IN THE AUTOMOBILE IS EXPLAINED & COMPARED WITH THE FISH IN THE OCEAN, WHO ARE SUBJECTED TO TREMENDOUS PRESSURE CAUSED BY THE WEIGHT OF WATER ABOVE." Downloads: 333 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Perversion for Profit - Christophers, The Often quite humorous film which purports to speak about cultural mores and their decline; advises us to be wary of pornography which may appear at the local newsstand, malt shop or drugstore. In reaction to perception of substantial growth in the distribution of pornographic material. Homosexuality is considered pornographic per se. Shows frank images often with censoring black bars across them [the bars often obscure very little, simply adding to the air of licentious ness]... Downloads: 2,458 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 3) - Medicus, Phillip 05:00:45:21 - 06:02:24:00 color silent 1939-40 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films. Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Foreign Section and Transportation Area. Historical pageant on history of railroads, transportation. 05:00:45:21 - 05:04:27:29 color silent 1939-40 Title: Foreign Section and Transportation Area. VS International pavilions in daytime... Downloads: 1,302 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Open Road, The - Telefilm Industries, Inc. Downloads: 2,443 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | American Maker (Letterboxed Anamorphic Version) - Handy (Jam) Organization Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone. This is the letterboxed anamorphic version. Downloads: 301 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Science in Action: Rivers of Ice (Part II) - California Academy of Sciences Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. This program is devoted to glaciers, and also includes a promo for the Academy of Sciences. Guests: Father Bernard Hubbard, the "Glacier Priest" (Santa Clara University, Department of Geology), and Dick Nile (student at San Francisco's Mission High School), demonstrating a precipitator. Animal of the Week: California Ground Squirrel... Keywords: Science; Television programs; Arctic: Exploration Downloads: 6,110 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: Can 1-4, 1928] "A Morning in the Garden with Momo and Poppo 1928" Downloads: 105 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Untitled: TWA] Interviews w/ airline workers Downloads: 223 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Divide and Conquer (Part III) - U.S. War Department Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series. Keywords: World War II: General; World War II: Europe Downloads: 15,225 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | American Maker - Handy (Jam) Organization Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone. Keywords: Chevrolet, industrial films, sponsored films, institutional advertising, automobiles, 1960s, suburbia Downloads: 1,043 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Detroit You've Never Met, The - Detroit Olympic Committee • 1:10:25- 1:35:80 Excellent, fast speedboat POV passing Detroit's waterfront. We get a crisp view of its skyline and waterfront. • 15:07:32- 15:30:21 Good aerial view of Detroit: the camera pulls away from the skyline a bit shakily. Cut to short pan of the city from the water, and finish we image of crowds walking on a busy street. • 16:11:24- 16:23:21 Dodge City. Excellent pan of a large lot of cars—we see the industrial part of the city surrounding the lot... Downloads: 436 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | What Now! - Aegis Productions On carpet cleaning Nice sequence of late 1950s-early 1960s teenagers dancing in living room, making mess Downloads: 526 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | My Own Yard To Play In Downloads: 176 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | This Is Color - Wilding Productions Downloads: 516 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | American Girl, An - the Problems of Prejudice (Part II) An adolescent girl in a small town tests her democratic heritage when she pretends to be Jewish and encounters prejudice. She explores the problem of antiSemitism by reading her diary at a PTA meeting. Keywords: need keyword Downloads: 6,140 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Powr-Lok - Handy (Jam) Organization 1950's mom driving yellow Lincoln convertible, picks up son at end of school day. Tail fins, chrome. Downloads: 785 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Television Commercials: Folger's Coffee] FOLGER'S COFFEE: 40 minutes of old Folger's commercials. Most of the Folger's ads involve a similar theme: Using white young suburban newlywed characters, Folger's explores different personality types in the similar scenario -- a domestic conflict is created because the wife's coffee does not meet the expectations of her husband, advice is provided from an outside mentor, and the domestic sphere is now happily depicted... Downloads: 1,337 Average rating: (1 review) |  |